New! Sign up for our free email newsletter.

Math Puzzles News

December 5, 2024

Top Headlines

 

New research reveals the unique human ability to conceptualize numbers may be rooted deep within the ...
A team of physics educators is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools. Traditional classroom teaching has tended to focus on presenting the history of the origins of quantum physics, which often poses problems for ...
It turns out gaming is good for you! New research indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours previously thought of as frittering away ...
A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for ...

Latest Headlines

updated 5:14pm EST

Earlier Headlines

 

The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a team has shown that a certain class of such problems can actually be solved better and much ...

Through steady advances in the development of quantum computers and their ever-improving performance, it will be possible in the future to crack our current encryption processes. To address this ...

The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models describing stock market ...

At-risk individuals, such as those with known gaming and gambling problems, are more likely to engage with loot boxes than those without. The study is the result of one of the largest, most complex ...

Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers, and a team is now merging quantum physics with mature cryptography and storage techniques to achieve a cost-effective cloud storage ...

The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new ...

New research has used machine learning to find the properties of atomic pieces of geometry, in pioneering work that could drive the development of new results in ...

Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption. The researchers behind the study believe ...

Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...

In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success. ...

An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists has uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics, that reveals key insights into the ...

Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...

Measuring human brain activity down to the cellular level: until now, this has been possible only to a limited extent. With a new approach it will now be much easier. The method relies on ...

Making history with 42 digits: Scientists have unlocked a decades-old mystery of mathematics with the so-called ninth Dedekind number. Experts worldwide have been searching for the value since 1991. ...

Large numbers can only be factorized with a great deal of computational effort. Physicists are now providing a blueprint for a new type of quantum computer to solve the factorization problem, which ...

The way our senses adjust while playing high-intensity virtual reality games plays a critical role in understanding why some people experience severe cybersickness and others ...

Existing color systems, such as RGB and CYMK, are all text-based and require a large range of values to represent different colors, making them difficult to compute and time-consuming to convert. ...

In a new approach to security that unites technology and art, E researchers have combined silver nanostructures with polarized light to yield a range of brilliant colors, which can be used to encode ...

Despite old fears that bad effects follow excessive video game playing or questionable game choices, researchers found those factors mattered little, if any, in children's brain health. The bad ...

Gamers who buy 'loot boxes' are up to two times more likely to gamble, shows new ...

Monday, March 18, 2024

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Friday, October 27, 2023

Monday, September 25, 2023

Monday, September 4, 2023

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Friday, July 7, 2023

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Monday, June 26, 2023

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Monday, May 1, 2023

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Monday, February 13, 2023

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Friday, December 2, 2022

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Monday, November 21, 2022

Monday, October 31, 2022

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Friday, September 9, 2022

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Monday, February 7, 2022

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Wednesday, January 19, 2022